* Print on cardstock, laminate, and glue to popsicle sticks for stick puppets. Use on the fridge, magnet board, or metal cookie sheet. * Print on cardstock, laminate, cut out, and place a magnet on the back.

* Print on t-shirt transfer paper, iron onto sheets of felt, cut out, and use on a flannel board. If you are looking for the digital felt clip art set, you can find those here: Does Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too Digital Felt Art.Īfter downloading and printing this felt story set, you can use the characters in a variety of ways, such as: **Please note, this set comes in flattened PDF files only. Kangaroo, Lion (male and female), Giraffe, Penguin, Swan (with water and without), Fox, Dolphin, Sheep, Bear, Elephant, Monkey, Deer This 14-piece set includes the following handmade digital felt art printable figures: This felt story set was inspired by the classic children's picture book, Does Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? by Eric Carle and is fun for retelling the story. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world.Flannel boards are a great tool in teaching visual literacy, narration, sequencing, and comprehension! In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.Įric Carle received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. Other favorite classic books from Eric Carle include The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, From Head to Toe, and many others.Įric Carle was the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.Įric Carle was born in New York, USA. Eric Carle’s classic, colorful collages of baby animals and their mothers will delight and comfort young readers.ĭoes a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? is a warm and approachable book to use in the classroom, to cuddle up reading with a little one, and to give as a baby shower or Mother's Day gift. Swim with a baby dolphin calf in the deep blue sea. Watch little cubs prance around mother lion. Meet the little joey bouncing in mother kangaroo’s pouch.

Bright collage illustrations and simple text reinforce the theme that everyone has a mother, and every mother loves her child. From Eric Carle, the New York Times bestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouchy Ladybug, comes a reassuring tale of a mother’s love for her child.ĭoes a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? answers curious kids who wonder whether lions, bears, and monkeys have mothers, too.

Does a kangaroo have a mother too